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Browse innovative developments in materials and manufacturing that significantly impact military, medical devices, automotive, and industrial manufacturing. Advances in plastics, metals, and composites are transforming 3D printing and rapid prototyping.

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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These polymers can combine thermal and optically fixable shape memory.
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Briefs: Materials
Squid skin inspires a new material with heat-regulating properties.
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Briefs: Materials
When combined with saltwater, rust can be a source of electricity.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technology has applications in sonar, range measuring, directional-force sensors, flow meters, and vibration/noise sensing and control.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The device could impact composites manufacturing and health monitoring.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Stronger and flexible, polyimide aerogels provide insulation and structural support.
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Question of the Week: Imaging
Will the Ability to Manipulate Virtual Objects in Real-World Scenes Help Your Design and Manufacturing Efforts?

A Tech Briefs TV video this week demonstrated a Brown University system called Portal-ble. The augmented-reality technology allows you to place virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on smartphone screens. Users can then...

Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Our expert examines the pros and cons of welding, adhesives, and other metal joining methods.
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Blog: Medical
Computed tomography is being used in the medical and industrial field. An expert explains how the two imaging techniques differ.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
What's the best aluminum for extrusion? A Tech Briefs reader asks our expert.
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics

A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As...

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INSIDER: Power

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have reported a new mechanism to speed up the charging of lithium-ion batteries...

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Blog: Materials
A team in Germany has a quicker, cleaner approach to welding metal to plastic: The HPCI® Joining Gun.
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Question of the Week: Aerospace
Will Entire Planes Be Built By 'Assembler Robots?'

Commercial aircraft are typically manufactured in sections, often in different locations, and then flown to a central plant for final assembly. Researchers at MIT are hoping to change that.

Facility Focus: Information Technology
In recent decades, NSF-funded researchers have discovered quite a bit, including many of the fundamental particles of matter.
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Products: Test & Measurement
3D-printing platforms, simulation software, transistors, and more.
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Articles: Transportation
See the eight winners of the 2019 "Create the Future" Design Contest
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Machine vision systems shed light on processes too small or too fast to see with the human eye.
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Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
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Briefs: Energy

Undercooled metal technology was developed that features liquid metal (in this case, Field's metal, an alloy of bismuth, indium, and tin) trapped below its melting point in polished,...

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Briefs: Electronics & Computers

A process was developed for producing oxide perovskite crystals in flexible, free-standing layers. A two-dimensional rendition of this substance is intriguing because 2D materials have been shown to...

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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Researchers have created a motion-powered, fireproof sensor that can track the movements of firefighters, steelworkers, miners, and others who work in high-risk environments where they cannot always be seen....

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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control

A perception system for soft robots was developed that is inspired by the way humans process information about their own bodies in space and in relation to other objects and people. The system includes a...

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5 Ws: Imaging
A new wearable could make heart health monitoring easier and more accurate than existing electrocardiograph machines.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines are employed to locate cancerous tumors and aid in the development of treatment plans, while nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) machines are used to...

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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Researchers have developed a fiber that combines the elasticity of rubber with the strength of a metal, resulting in a tougher material. The fibers consist of a gallium metal core...

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Articles: Test & Measurement
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Thermal cameras like forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensors are actively deployed on aerial and ground vehicles, in watch towers, and at check points for surveillance purposes. More recently,...

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Briefs: Wearables

Contact lenses that can monitor the wearer’s health and correct eyesight use embedded electronics. These, and other curved devices such as solar cells and electronics, could be...

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On-Demand Webinars: Defense

From Data to Decision: How AI Enhances Warfighter Readiness

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Upcoming Webinars: Aerospace

April Battery & Electrification Summit

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Upcoming Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Tech Update: 3D Printing for Transportation in 2024

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Upcoming Webinars: Materials

Unleashing Epoxy's Potential: Ensuring Hermetic Sealing in Modern...

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Upcoming Webinars: Test & Measurement

Building an Automotive EMC Test Plan

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Upcoming Webinars: Aerospace

The Moon and Beyond from a Thermal Perspective

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